Hope for the best.

Expect the worst.

Some drinks can pay, some die of thirst, the way of knowing which way it's going,

hope for the best, expect the worst.

Oh, for the best.

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.

This is Take Three of our effort to bring you today's podcast on Friday, March 6th, 2026.

Many sound problems, many technical difficulties. We had terrible technical

difficulties yesterday that made it impossible for us to upload the podcast to YouTube, and they

may be continuing today. So just be patient. And if you're trying to watch it on YouTube and

it's not on YouTube, This entire conversation is literally taking place

in some kind of temporal loop that will make no sense to you. And by us having this conversation,

I mean executive editor, A Greenwald, hi Abe. Hi, John. Social commentary columnist Christine Rosen.

Hi, Christine. Hi, John. Senior editor, Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John. And joining Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth.

Hi, John.

And joining us today, our newly minted Washington Commentary Columnist, Jamie Kurchick,

James Kurchick, the author of his first column, the chutzp of Yoram Chazoni, his next column coming out when we release the issue at the end of next week.

It might be called the chutzpah of Steve Bannon.

We're going to be doing like a series of chutzpah dick columns about various bad actors and

bad faith people in and around Washington.

Jamie, welcome again to the podcast and as, and welcome as a commentary columnist.

Thank you, John. Delighted to be here. Okay, we got so much to talk about. So, Christy Noem has been fired.

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